May 21, 2013

Halle Berry says Motherhood Won’t Dictate her Film Choices

Cherie Saunders   

Halle Berry drops off her daughter Nahla Aubry at school in Los Angeles. (March 6, 2013)

*Halle Berry is back in theaters on Friday with “The Call,” a thriller that has the Oscar winner as a 911 operator who helps save the life of a girl who’s been abducted.

“Far too many times we hear about women, girls, kids being abducted and they disappear, or we find the body somewhere,” the actress told us during interviews for the film in Los Angeles. “This movie gives us a chance to look into what might really happen if that were to happen. And while it’s frightening, what it also does is help heighten our awareness to how we can better protect ourselves.

“At the same time, I know I walked away from it feeling scared, but also thinking, ‘Okay, now I know a few things I could do to help myself if I’m in this situation. Now I know what to do so that maybe I’m not in this situation.’ So while it’s scary, I think people will walk away with some real information that could ultimately help them at some point.”

Halle Berry drops off her daughter Nahla Aubry at school in Los Angeles. (March 6, 2013)

Halle Berry drops off her daughter Nahla Aubry at school in Los Angeles.
(March 6, 2013)

As the mom of a young daughter, who turns five on Saturday (March 16), Berry says it’s important for Nahla to have a positive maternal role model…but, it doesn’t mean she should only play movie characters that are squeaky clean.

Listen below.

“The Call,” directed by Brad Anderson, also stars Morris Chestnut as a cop, Abigail Breslin as the abducted girl and Michael Eklund as the abductor.  Watch the trailer below.




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Comments

  1. Taurusingr says:

    Sheeeeit “motherhood” ain’t the prollum, it’s yo “BLACKNESS”!!! (whispering…”& lower talent ratio”.) But hardly ANY Black actors get ANYthang “worth” doing so…they cain’t afford NOT to be eager to do EVERYthang. But?, I digress.

  2. SweetPea says:

    Taurusingr….what the heck are you talking about.

  3. I totally get what Taurusingr is saying. As a Black actor/actress, if you raise the bar too high, you’ll simply be another unemployed out-of-work actor.

  4. Hope little Nahla don’t get a gander of that one scene in Monster’s Ball where ol’ Billy Bob decides to chow down on a fur burger served up by her mamma. Now THAT’S some maternal role modeling for ya ass right thar!

  5. Taurusingr says:

    @M…..THANK you! I swear the “cultural termites”/”blindness/IGnants of suuuuummmm!??? SMH! Which is whyyyyyy I “IGD” dat shyt! Again…good lookin ‘on dat! >< !!!! :-) ))!

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